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The Weekly Round-Up: Beam me up, Siri

...We shall fight them on the beaches - and in the House of Commons... The spirit of Winston Churchill was recently invoked by MPs battling a... Read more

21 October, 2011 by The Round-Up

Apple iPads backed for House of Commons

...be able to use Apple iPads and tweet in the House of Commons, according to a parliamentary committee. Politicians ought to be allowed to use... Read more

25 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

MPs get green light for iPad and Twitter

...should be able to use tablet devices and smartphones in House of Commons debates, a parliamentary committee has recommended. A parliamentary report has recommended the... Read more

25 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs call for order on iPads and tablets

...rules on letting mobile computers such as iPads inside the House of Commons chamber. The review by the procedure committee — the body that scrutinises proper... Read more

31 January, 2011 by Nick Heath
Oolite 1.76.1

Oolite 1.76.1

...Oolite and its source-code are offered for free under a Creative Commons License: (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0 Read more

27 May, 2012
Game of Thrones Companion 3.8

Game of Thrones Companion 3.8

...sourced from Wikipedia and A Wiki of Ice and Fire under Creative Commons License. Maps available from the Digital Attic v2.0.Original artwork by... Read more

27 March, 2012
Barcelona Offline Street Map 4.0.0

Barcelona Offline Street Map 4.0.0

...the map is from Open Street Map, http://openstreetmap.com/ under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.Follow us on Twitter.http://twitter.com... Read more

11 February, 2012
Inkscape 0.48.2

Inkscape 0.48.2

...clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and... Read more

6 September, 2011
Inkscape 0.48.2

Inkscape 0.48.2

...clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on... Read more

14 August, 2011

MPs: Government IT is a 'recipe for rip-offs'

...a situation that witnesses described as a "recipe for rip-offs", the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (Pasc) said in a report on Thursday. "IT... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner
China Goggles 2.6

China Goggles 2.6

...from CC-CEDICT (cc-cedict.org), which is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License Read more

21 July, 2011

CSC contracts could cost NHS more to cancel than keep

...midlands and east of England, Connelly told MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on Monday. "Potentially, if you ask me about the... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Free Apple iPads for MPs go under debate

Free Apple iPads for MPs go under debate

...politicians tablet PCs at the start of their term in office. The Commons administration committee will assess whether tablet PCs are suited to parliamentary business... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Amazon creates 'shopping-enabled' Wikipedia pages

...Waring explained. Amazon's use of the content is licensed under Creative Commons, the alternative to traditional copyright that Wikipedia uses for all of its... Read more

2 December, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy

Government announces migration cap from 2011

...come in to force from April 2011. Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, home secretary Theresa May said: "We have worked closely with... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

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